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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-03


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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-03

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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-03
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-03
JEWELRY AND
HOLIDAY GOODS.

Fuily Illustrated IN our Fail and Winter Catalog
free. MAILER BEs1ls, 5O6 and SOS 9th Ave, n.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
PERSONALS.

Ex-senator Hearst, of California, owns
ranch of $4,000 acres at San Simeon.
Governor Lee, of Virginia, is said to be
the champion checker player of the south.
Ben: Perley Poore says the president
on Christmas day ate a mince pie made
by Mrs. Folsom.
Allen o. Meyers is in the south, and has
rechristined Birmingham, Ala. He calls
the place Boomingham.
George W. Cable will be the guest of
the State Sumner Union League Club at
Hartford, Conn, Wednesday.
Miss Lille Scidmore, the Washington
correspondent, is a famous traveller and
has been around the world more than
once. Her mother now lives in Japan.
The Rev. Mr.. Downs, Of Boston, will
get his salary from the church which
expelled him. The supreme court has
decided the case in his favor, and he gets
$4,000.
Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, will
retire from congress at the close of this
session, and after that he will devote
himself to preparing data for war his
tory of Pennsylvania.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE.
Terrible Explosion in the City Of San Fran

Terrible Explosion in the City of San Fran
cisco.
San FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.-The residents
in Port street between Larkin and Polk
streets, were startled between and s
O'Clock this evening by the sound Of a
tremendous explosion and by the shat
tering of glass about their ears. dyna-
mite cartridge had been exploded on the
track of the Larkin and Suffer
street cable road and had exploded under
dummy No. 81. The dummy was COM
pletely wrecked and the windows of cars
and houses in the vicinity demolished.
Mr.. Hildebrandt and wife and brother
were sitting in the dummy on the side
where the explosion took place.
They were all thrown into the street.
Mrs. Hildebrandt it is feared is seriously
injured. She was taken to neighboring
house and medical assistance summoned,
and later in the evening conveyed home.
1t was miracle there were no others in
Jured. The excitement was intensified
when it was learned that another explo-
sion took place at 9 o'clock, in which no
one was injured
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
Amateur House-Painting by Women.

u.
THERE'S something very fascinating to
a woman in house painting. L speak
from experience. In fact, it is danger
ously fascinating. I advise-still from
experience-I advise any of the roman
tic turn of mind, capable of dreaming
dreams and building castles in the air,
not to paint two red chairs for the front
porch-a deed innocent in ITSELF, but
leading to very important consequences.
Just aiittle vermilion, painters brush
some oil and turpentine, and your chairs
glow like the geraniums on your lawn.
You leave them to dry, and come back to
lind your cat asleep in one of them, while
a neighbours poodle lies in the other.
You paint them again. This time some
callers arrive. You hear the cheerful,
Its so nice out hers we'll just and
rush out, but not in time! There are
some scenes too tragic for the pen to de-
scribe.
However, you paint those chairs again,
and the brilliant idea of drying them on
the roof occurs to you; and YOU look at
your work with pride. You say to YOUR
self that with a small, very small. ex
penditure of money in pigments. wo-
man of your evident talent in decorative
art would be quite independent of the
professional and exorbitant house-paint-
er. In Imagination you see your rooms
beautifed b. your own hand, and admir-
ing crowds of relatives uttering their
praises. You go secretly out and buy
twenty five cents worth of burnt amber,
and some oil and turpentine, also box
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
A Slight Mistake.
San Francisco Chronicle

lady, one of the most popular in So
clety, who has been away in Europe and
elsewhere for many years, has just came
back to California. The rumors of car
riots and things like that have had some
thing of a natural effect upon her, and
she is timid of using cars. The only
cable cars she had made acquaintance
with were the old Clay street ones, which
work the grip by wheel. The new ideas
she had not much chance of studying her
preference being any way for carriage.
She had occasion last week to go out to
the western addition to call, and she had
just been reading of the riot. No power
on earth could have induced her to go on
cable car, even although they told her
that there was no trouble on the Market
street line. She and her daughter stood
waiting for a horse car, and one of the
Market street cars passed up.
Il thought you told me there was no
strike among the Market street men,"
she said to her daughter.
well, there is not mamma"
"Look there-there's a policeman on
that car, and there's policeman on that
car, just comming up; and I declare,
each of them has two guns in his hands,
1t was the gripman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20

of white lead, and you humbly begin on
the coal bin in the cellar.
| From this, spirit in your brush leads
F! you onward and upward, with the whisper
of Excelsior" until you reach the roof
and finish with the scuttle door. Or the
way you paint floors, doors, stairs, win
dow stills. You do the back fence, and
would do the front of the house but for
the force of popular opinion. You do
the bath tub and all the old picture
! frames. You make the step-ladder q
| symphony in two colors," and feel tn at
Raphael's effects are as nothing to yours
You decorate baby's high chair and the
clothes-horse, the coal scuttle, the wood
| box, the wash-bench, the ironing board
You go about in an apron with a bib
which gradually assumes all colors. Your
| little boy Is forever running to the paint
| er's shop with bottle for more turpen-
tine. You pay yourself high compliments
which you feel are not offered you by
| your husband on account of that feeling
of envy which the best of men will enter
tain for woman who shows her superior.
| ity in anything not usually considered
woman's province.
You don't mind how your wrists hurts.
so that you feel your power. As for
| your head, let it ache. You live in state
of exaltation never to be experienced
again while you exist, until you discover
| that, for some strange reason, paint ap-
piled to woodwork by a woman never
dries, but that it comes off dreadfuhy on
new overcoats and best. silk dresses and
| peoples hands. You will find your baby
with red tongue, broken nose, and a
| black forehead, sucking brush. Yo1
air away the evil smells until your family
succumb TO the infut MA, and suddenly it
dawns upon you that you have been ters-
! porarlly insane. 1t comes like an ava
lanche, and you fall from your fine &C.
stasy of self-gratulation into a slough of
despair. You ask why nobody stopped
you, why you were not locked up
chained, indeed, before you were allowed
to do what you have done! You hope, in
vain, that some one will at least say: ''It
is not so Bad" or every well consider
ing;" but nobody does.
| Relatives and connections who call
either look Mortified and exchange chances
with each other, or ask outright: ''What
has happened here?" or "What crank has
been st work on that?" You hear the
mllkman roar in the kitchen, while the
cook replies to his questions: "'Twas
the missus, Lord help herr Your house
keeping book contains so many small
items reading, "Ten cents for turpen-
tine" that you feel, when you balance the
weeks accounts, as though you had been
specializing in stocks and had lost, and
your one hope is now that you may be
able very shortly to call in professional
house painter to blot out such vestiges OF
the inspired labor of untutored genius as
have not been rubbed off upon the backs
and elbows of your family. And you
never try to paint your house again
| That beautiful dream has departed from
! your soul forever. You remain a saddel
| if not a wiser woman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
A BOLD CROOK.
Banking Houses of Appleton, Neenah and
Menasha Robbed-How it was Done.

Banking Houses of Appleton, Neenah and
Menasha Robbed-How it was Done.
EEENAE, Wis, Jan. 10.-The Manufac-
turers' bank, of Neenah, the Bank of Me-
nasha and the Commercial, of Appleton,
were each victimized on Saturday to the
extent of 5000, by young man who had
three drafts cashed. He had been deal
ing with the above named banks for the
last two weeks, going under the name of
Davis in Neenah, and in the other two
places as Baily, claiming to be in the
lumber business. He had sent money
away, also deposited money in large sums
at each bank.
On Saturday morning he went to the
Manufacturers bank while the cashier
forged draft for $500, and asked for
$500 on it, which he received with
out any Identification, going from
this place to Menasha, and from there to
Appleton, working in the same way at
each, he secured 1000 from the three,
inside of two hours. When the cashier of
the Menasha bank arrived, the clerk in
formed him of the transaction. He tele-
phoned to the Neenah bank. asking if
they knew the man. They answered that
they were in the same fix, and the cashier
telegraphed to the Chicago bank, receiv-
ing answer back that the draft was worth
less. In the other two the drafts were on
Dakota and New York banking house.
The young man who did the wol / had
been stopping at the Jasperson house,
and said he was from New York, and was
about to start a jewelry store here. He
displayed large sums of money and fire.
quently visited gambling rooms where he
lost heavily. He was an innocent looking
man, about % years old, and would not
be taken for crook. His partners, who
had been doing business with him through
the banks, arrived from the south Friday
evening. The police have no track of the
pair.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
ART AND ARTISTS.

The picture of Columbus at the Span
ish court by the Hungarian artist, Bro.
xix, presented to the New York Metro pol
itan Museum of Art by Mr.. 5essup, cost
that gentleman $4,000.
James G. Flood, the Californian archi
millionaire, bought ten paintings in New
York for $65,0O0, which have been sent tc
San Francisco. Among them are land
scapes by Diaz, Daubigny and Corot q
genre piece by Vibert, and specimen OF
Mundacsy.
The Museum of Art of Detroit has &C.
cepted the free gift of site with 400 feet
on three streets from Messrs. H. Brown
S. D. Miller and W. B. Moran. This leaves
the large fund collected for the museum
intact for expenditure on the building
and its expenses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
Fashionable Pronunciation.
Philadelphia Press.

DO you teach the English pronuncia-
tom"
Eyes"
Questionable English"
mo; not fashionable English; good
English"
"Oh! that won't do. I guess l know
good English good enough. But pa and
l are going to England next spring, and
L want to learn some London English.
Good day"
The speaker-a woman, trinity dressed
walked nimbly down the marble steps
of modest dwelling in the upper part of
the city.
She had just been making inquiry con-
corning the scope and terms of a new es-
Enlistment of learning, an institution
where "ladies of neglected education" re-
ce1ve instruction and where particular at
tention is paid to the meditation Of the
voice.
Il think L am supplying want that has
long been felt" said the head of the es-
adjustment, a woman with a historic
name, to the reporter. you know there
are many ladies who have not had an OPP
portunity to acquire liberal culture in
their youth, who gladly embrace the
cnance that l afford them. have about
efgAteen pupils now. Most of them are
young ladies who are employed during
the day, and who, being ambitious, wish
to excel. Some are ladies well-to- do now,
though, perhaps, not SO well off in their
youth. They are making up for oppor-
tun1tles that were wanting in their earlier
hfe and are fitting themselves for their
social position"
''Do you also write letter for those I'M
able to wrIte?''
eyes. That is a very old idea in some
European countries, and I find it very
useful here also. Most of my patrons of
that kind are servants, but some of them
are women who have means enough to
live elegantly, but who are poor with the
pen, or have no faith in their ability to
spell correctly. Altogether, besides
earning an honest living for myself, I
feel that am doing good phiIanthropic
work"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
Difficult to Decide.

Mamma said beautiful West-end
belle, Il have two offers of 1narrige."
Indeed, my dear who are the menu"
''Ohe, mamma, is count ann the 9TH
er coachman. Which shall I choose?'
"Well, daughter you must use your own
judgement. [ don't know how to advise.
1t has become so in this country that
one can't really decide whether coach
man is a count in disguise or a count a
coachman in disguise As [ said before
you must make your own choice
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
An Unfortunate Order.
New York Times

James" said grocer to MS clerk
''you mustn't say lady to the women Gus
toners any more; they don't like the
term !"
"All right, sir" replied James; and
presently Mrs Wayback came in.
Il want a Philadelphia dry-picked cod
fish," she said, "an three bars of soap.'
'Yes, woman" responded James
whereH you have 'em sent!'
Don't you woman me, you young
snapper-head," said Mrs. Wayback, eye,
ing him with disfavor. "I'm a lady an
don't you forget it," and she then fl bounced
out,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20

IMPORTANT LEGISLATION
Oshkosh Lumbermen Will Seek a Reduction Of
BOOmage Rates.

ORHKosH, Wis, Jan. lot is claimed
in numbering circles that mill men and
loggers of this city are preparing a bill
TO submit to the legislature this winter
for the purpose Of amending the charter
of the Wolf River Boom compony. The
object of the lumbermen is to secure
cheaper boomage. At present the boom
company receives in round figures $4,000
for every 1OO,OOO,0OO of logs which they
handle, which is about the amount RATED
here in season. AS the company's ex-
penses are claimed in round numbers to
be about $4,000 annually, the loggers
think the company is making too much
profit, and claim they will seek to have
the maximum price reduced to about 8
cents per 1000. At present they pay over
II cents. The bill will undoubtedly cause
big fight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
Decided to Support the Center.

BERLIN, Jan. 13.-At meeting of Pro-
gressiVe members of the Reichstag, held
yesterday evening, it was decided to sup
port the center in voting for the trIennial
term as the duration of the army bill.
There is not symptom of weakening Oh
the part of the opposition, or of its being
inclined to go beyond the triennial term.
A small number of the nobility who are
members of the center will vote with the
government, but their support is not
likely to affect the fate of the bill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
1t was Impossible.
Washington Critic

Just before Christmas society belle,
slightly rusty, was talking to her mother
abont presents.
(Which would you like to haye daugh-
ter?" asked the old lady.
Il have nearly everything, mama, but a
bea," said the fair creature, ''and if you
will give me that won't ask any more"
"A beau, daughter, exclaimed the old
lady, whose mind was more active than
her hearing; beau? I wish TO heaven I
could, daughter, but such thing seems
imDossible.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
Loss of the Steamer celtic Monarch

LONDON, Jan. 13-The Monarch line
steamer Celtic Monarch, which left Car
diff, January I'd, for Philadelphia, was
abandoned at sea in a sinking condition.
The crew were rescued by the steamer
Lake Superior, which has arrived at Liv-
erpool from New York. Her crew num-
bered % men. She carried no passen-
gers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20

Vice, and refuse to equality themselves
for it? Is it their fault; ye the fault of
the way our households are adjusted?
Is it because of the want of cordial re-
lationS between the master and mistress
of the household On one side and the SER
wants on the other? Whatever be the
cause, the evil is so harassing one as
to warrant determined and thoroughly
fair effort to find it out that it may be
removed or remedied
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
A Cousin Worth Having,

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 10.-An Evening
Wisconsin Superior City special says:
Alex. Crawford, a we'll known Duluth
iron manufacturer has received notice
that by the death of cousin named Jas.
Thompson, in Ballerti, Australia, for
tune of over million pounds has been
left to him and his four brothers, giving
them each nearly nine hundred thousand
dollars. Crawford had not seen his
cousin in forty years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
Who He Was.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 1O.-Charles Moffett
was machine erector for Allis & Co, and
lived at No. $50 Reed street He was
about 35 years of age, single, and has rel
atives living somewhere in the west. He
had been with the firm about one year,
coming to Milwaukee from Erie, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
A MILWAUKEE MAN SUICIDES.
O. C. MOffett Blows His Head Off in a Union
town. Pa. Hotel.

u Z. MUHttU BLOWS HIS I16dU UH IL q UDIOn-
town, Pa, Hotel.
UNIoNTowN., Pa, Jan. 100. G. Moi
felt, sent here from Milwaukee, Wis, to
superintend the erection of machinery
shipped from that city, was found dead
in his bed at the Eagle hotel yesterday
morning. Moffett retired to his room
about midnight, went to bed, propped
himself up with pillow, and pointing a
Winchester rife at his head, pulled the
trigger with his toe. He was horribly
mutilated. He left note on the table
bidding goodbye to his mother, brother
and sister in Milwaukee. Moffett's mind,
it is believed, had become affected by
drink.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
RepOrted FayOrabIy.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Sen. Wilson, Of
Pennsylvania, from the committee on
postoffices to- day reported favorably the
bill providing that no postofices Of the
third class shall be ti;1eto 10 the
fourth class if it appears that the gross
receipts of such amount for the year to
$1,000, and that box rents and commits
sions constituting the postmasters COM
pensation amount to $1,000 or more for
year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
He Understood at Last.

'But, father" she protested as the old
man ceased speaking, ''you do not seem to
understand the case"
''Oh, but do. You shall never marry
William, even if he is nay confidential
clerk"
'Father. you"
"That is all, Helen-say no more"
Four days latter she wrote him from
Toronto, saying: ''Will and arrived here
safely and were married at once We
have 100000 of your money. Is ali for
given, or shall we settle down here?"
He telegraphed his forgiveness. = Wall
Street News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20
As Good as Elected.

HARTFORD, Conn, Jan. 13-The repub-
llcan legislative caucus to-day unanimous
~ renominated Gen. HaWley for United
States senator. The republicans in joint
ballot have majority of thirty-one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20

- For notices in reference to Special Excur-
sions changes of time and other items of inter-
est in connection with the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE,
ST. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to the local
columns of this paper
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-20

1t cost the United States government
1884, las year to pay the salaries and
MILEAGE of senator's
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-24
Russian Policy at Home and
AbrOnt.

Advices from st. Petersburg say that
the Gar has abandoned his projected
visit to the Cossack capital-Sovo-
Tcharkssk- owing to the discomfort
and turbulence prevailing among the
Cossacks. According to the same adj
vices, a deputation Of Cossacks recently
visited st. Petersburg for the purpose
OF having an audience with the Car
and Czarc wich. but were compelled to
return to Their country without having
been received. Secret agents and pub
lie officials among the Don Cossacks
report that the dissatisfaction is vide
spread. They say the country is over
run with revolutionary emissaries,
whose propaganda is welcomed by the
people.
The North Gcrmoa gazette, re-
ferrng to the report that the Gar is
about TO confer upon VI. dc Giers, the
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the
grand cross Of the Order of st. Vladi-
mir, says that this proposed action of
the Gar reiflirms the policy of VI. de
Giers. 1t says: 1.-THE foreign press,
especially the French press, is mis-
taken if it Supposes that the views of
NJ. Katkoff represent the policy of Rus
STA. The Gar and NJ. de Giers alone
conduct the Russian policy, which is
pacific, possibly Indifferent, toward
Germany, and certainly in nowise hos
tile. The French revancheurs cherish
the hope of a war between Russia and
Germany but it will be disadvantage
to France if the press succeeds in es-
tablishing this wrong idea in the minds
of the French"